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Can you turn a muddy under used area of your garden into a fab space?
These days we are spending more time in our gardens, it could be the cost of food, or holidays, so why not make your garden into ...

Planning your Spring Display
It is time to think about planting some bulbs to give your garden a splash of color in spring. You do not have to just stick with the usual daffodils and tulips, you can find all sorts ...

For those of us lucky to live in warmer climates we often need to adjust our plans.......
The choice of plants through to watering all need extra thought, I personally like a mixed garden of flowers, fruit and vegetables all growing ...

Grow Your Own Dinner
More people than ever before are beginning to grow vegetables in their garden. Growing your own vegetables can be a very satisfying form of gardening and many people are even turning over some flower beds for the ...

Getting Rid Of Slugs At one time or another, every gardener battles the problem of pests eating their prized petunias, or dazzling daffodils. Pests come in various forms, but if you ask most gardeners, they will agree that one ...

What is an Organic Garden and Do I Need One? There has been an outcry over the past few years to ban pesticides and grow plants and vegetables more naturally, without interference from man-made materials like synthetic fertilizers; thus, ...

Tips and Tricks to Keep Your Garden Blooming All Year Long! There is nothing like a colorful, blooming garden to create an inviting atmosphere and curb appeal to your home. Some people seem to have a knack for creating ...

Ten Tips For a Perfectly Landscaped Garden!
Whether you have five acres of lush green space, or a small backyard, you can create your own personal oasis to retreat to on warm summer evenings, or after a hard day's work. There ...

Lawn Care Most people with gardens love to gaze out at a beautifully landscaped lawn and yard. Although it sounds hard work to get that cricket pitch look or a lawn like you see in stately homes It is ...

Garden Lighting If you have considered installing your own landscape lighting but think it is too difficult, I am here to show you that it is not. Landscape lighting can be super simple to put in if you have ...

Gardens For Kids

Exposing your children to gardening at a young age is actually very important, not only will they learn about nature, but also science and the importance of being organic.

I recently overheard a friend ask his 6 year old daughter “where do peas come from?” and her reply was “the supermarket” and called her dad silly, how dad could not know that they came from a tin in a supermarket! He asked her again, if she knew where peas really came from before ending up in a supermarket, she didn’t know.

When I was a young boy my dad gave me about 10 square feet of his 5 acres of prime Rhodesian garden, It was my very first exposure to that great big gardening bug, he spent hours with me showing me how to sow seeds, and nurture my own plants and vegetables, My first plants were cannas, and I grew a small number of carrots, onions and beans.

I still remember with tearful pride how my dad announced to a dinner party that his son had grown the horseradish that now graced the roast beef dinner.

I highly recommend that parents give a piece of land to their kids, along with a gift of seeds, seedlings and some kid sized gardening tools, make a ceremony out of it, get granddad to come around, as we all know that our granddads know everything about gardening (even when they don’t) but it will give your kids a very firm foundation for life.

Kids will love growing everything that they enjoy eating, sweet corn for example would be ideal; also sunflowers would look good in your Childs garden. You could even give then a small shed, just like dads. I am sure that as parents you will be able to teach more about life and science to your kids and also show them how to relax, they will find it therapeutic and studies have shown that some problem kids, or sadly those who have suffered abuse will often thrive when they have an outlet, and they can use all 5 senses in their own little gardens.

Just think how proud you will be when your kids will want to select the best fruit and vegetables when at the market, after all they will be the “experts” and will know what is in season and what is not, but hopefully if your kids are successful on a small piece of ground, give them more, if in the UK put their name down for an allotment, if not then let them have as much as they can cope with.